Railroad-rail.



No. 857,741. PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

A. KING.

RAILROAD RAJL. APPLICATION FILED JAN.3 0, 1907.

' v GEM/nut ALPHONSE KING, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

RAILROAD-RAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed January 30,1907. Serial No. 354,835. I

T 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE KING, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Rails, of which the following is a specification. A

The objects of this invention are to so construct railway rails as to dispense with fishplates and to provide for the renewal of the tread without renewing the entire rail and to make this renewal without removing the main portion of the rails from the ties or sleeper.

A further object is accomplished by carrying out the ideas just specified, namely, that of so constructing the rails that joints therein will not be noticed by sound or feeling when crossed.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the structure of and combination between the parts forming the improved rail substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification, Figure 1 repre sents in perspective the assembled features of the improvement; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the structure, seen in Fig. 1,taken in the plane indicated by the line YY, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the structure, seen in Fig. 1, taken in the plane indicated by the line X-X.

Jolting and wear at the joints between railway rails has always been one of the chief annoyances in railway construction. The present invention obviates this great annoyance and in a simple manner.

In the drawings 4 indicates the end of one rail, 5 the end of the abutting rail, and 6 the head of the rail, whose upper surface forms the tread. The web of one of the rails, as 5 in the present instance, is offset and extended beyond the flange or foot of the rail so as to overlap the web of the abutting rail. This extension is seen at 7. Through registering holes in the extension 7 and the web 8 of rail a are passed bolts 9 and 10, provided with suitable nuts 11 and 12 respectively. Any desired means may be employedfor looking these nuts upon their bolts, but these locking means do not form a part of the present invention.

The union between the rails being formed by the offset extension or tongue 7, avoids the necessity of fish-plates and gives a firmer hold of one rail upon the other than can be provided by fish-plates. Then by employing a removable head or cap, as seen at 6, which is provided with a longitudinal groove or channel fitting snugly upon the somewhat tapered upper edge of the webs 8, the joint is further strengthened, since such cap will, by overlapping the joints between the rails, as shown, prevent the usual downward displacement of the ends of the rails caused by the transit of wheels across the joint. This cap is preferably bolted to the webs 8 by suitable bolts as indicated at 13. joints between the cap sections and the rails the treads will not be hammered at the joints by passing wheels, as is the case in the present construction of rails, because the ends of the caps cannot be forced down independently of each other and cannot beappreciably forced down because they occur, at an intermediate portion of the main body of the rail. Obviously when a section of a cap or rail head becomes worn out it may be readily replaced by a new section, simply by removing the bolt 13.

The invention claimed is 1. Asection of railway rail, having at one end an off-set extension, of the web alone, provided with bolt holes and having at the other end bolt holes through the web itself corresponding with those in said extension, whereby the web extension, occurring at but one end of each section, may overlap the web of the abutting section and be bolted thereto.

2. In a railway rail, the combination of abutting sections of rail, each consisting of a foot and an integral web, and each web having at one end, and below its upper edge, an offset extension projecting beyond the foot and provided with bolt holes and having bolt holes at the other end corresponding with those in said extension, whereby said extension occurring at one end only of each web, may overlap the abutting section and be bolted thereto, and abutting sections of grooved cap removably secured to said web and breaking joints therewith, for the purpose set forth.

Signed at San Antonio, Texas this th day of January 1907.

ALPHONSE KING. Witnesses:

EMIL BEHRENS, W. A. J. RoAcH.

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